Hong Kong films are declining, and it is already a fact that there is no need to discuss!

Blindly following the trend and filming one genre to death, causing other genres to disappear or become a niche.

For example, "Ghost Fights Ghost" brought fire to the fantasy film, Sammo Hung began to shoot "People Are Scary", "People Are Scary", "People Are Scared of Ghosts", and "Ghosts Bites Ghosts", which fell from the fourth place at the annual box office to the top ten.

After the Five Lucky Stars series became popular, they successively launched "Five Lucky Stars", "Summer Lucky Stars", "Lucky Stars Shine" and "Five Lucky Stars Hit Ghosts", and the score fell all the way, from 7.9 to 6.5.

Kung fu movies are blockbusters, so they make kung fu movies hard, and the star dramas are repeated again and again when they make money, but this model is not an innovation, but a retro seventies and eighties, resulting in only police and gangster films now...

Since the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, almost all Hong Kong films of the police and bandit genre, especially those involving undercover agents and moles, have their shadows.

"Anti-Drug 3" is the same, the sense of déjà vu is too strong, and even the lines are the same. However, only lines like can't make a classic.

The plot of the movie is very old, the kind that is badly filmed.

It is also known as the "police and bandit formula movie" and our mainland's "main theme formula movie".

The most critical thing is that the movie with such a formula has not been filmed well, and the plot is not in suspense.

I really feel that there are too many anti-drug and anti-crime themes, and anti-corruption has also been filmed several times in a row, everyone is tired of watching it, and there are relatively few bomb disposal and counterfeit banknote themes recently, so everyone loves to watch the "Bomb Disposal Expert" series and "Wushuang".

In fact, you can pat the theme of anti-pornography...

In the past, TVB had a TV series called "Anti-Pornography Pioneer", which was very good-looking, and the theme song was sung by Guo Fucheng - Dreamless Hero.

In fact, you can let Kwok Fucheng challenge this theme, "Anti-Yellow Pioneer" vs "Bomb Disposal Expert", let Lin Chaoxian or Ye Weixin shoot, maybe it can be popular.

I'm serious!

Well, the subject matter is not the original sin, the key is the entry point of the script and the characters.

Looking at the previous themes, such as "Demon Police", "King of Guns", "Disciple", "Keep Talking" and so on, these don't make people feel very repetitive.

Later, I don't know what year I have been unwilling to spend my imagination on the police script, blindly pursuing the scene and layout...

From Shen Xudong's point of view, it's good, he has PPTV, and he can create his own film and television dramas according to the Netflix model and absorb talents from the Hong Kong circle...

There are more than 10,000 people in Hong Kong film and television dramas, and there are still many good players.

For example, the executive director of "Hurricane" Chen Weixiong is not well-known, but he has been the executive director of a bunch of movies, such as the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, two "Underworld", etc., and the directors he cooperates with are all the top big-name directors in Hong Kong, Johnny To, Lau Weiqiang, Wang Jing, Sammo Hung, etc.

For example, Xiao Weiqiang has served as the executive director of films such as "In the Mood for Love", "2046", "Huo Yuanjia", "King of Kung Fu", "Zodiac" and so on...

Zhong Lifang dug them up, opened a play for each person, the scripts were ready-made, and Golden Harvest hoarded a bunch of police and gangster film scripts, similar to "Anti-Drug", "Anti-Black", "Counterfeit Banknote"...

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In the North American market, "Batman: The Dark Knight" dominates!

The film that has been at the top of the box office for four weeks can be described as breathtaking - the box office performance of 158 million in the opening week is amazing, and the box office in four weeks is more than 400 million US dollars!

It's a good thing for Shen Xudong, because Christian Bale's fame is at its peak.

At that time, "Seeing the Devil" was released, which helped a lot!

"Seeing the Devil" is a very typical R-rated crime film...

Almost rated NC-17!

If it is rated NC-17, at least more than half of the income will be lost, so Shen Xudong asked director Drew Gouda to deliberately add a bunch of bloody and violent scenes, and the first time it was rated NC-17, and the second time he deleted the scenes that were too bloody and violent, and then gave an R grade...

This is to learn Seth Rogen's "The End of the World", after filming "The End of the World", I felt that this broken movie was too crazy, and I couldn't get an R rating, so I added a lot of sherbets, swear words and even sex scenes, and then deleted these scenes and gave them an R rating.

Speaking of "Seeing the Devil", the plot is very simple, the policeman played by Bell witnesses the brutal murder of his fiancée, and the fiancée happens to be pregnant...

See with your own eyes the head soaked in water...

At that moment, a demon rose in his heart.

Swear revenge!

The seeds of hatred germinate and turn into towering trees!

A simple shot to kill him won't solve his hatred, he wants to play with this perverted murderer!

successfully found the criminal, that is, the psychopathic murderer played by Jack Nicholson, and then released him, Bell took him as a prey and used the latest tracking technology to track him.

Catch him, torture him, and let him go.

Repeatedly.

However, the cunning criminal still found out the secret of being followed, escaped completely, seriously injured his fiancée's father, raped and killed his fiancée's sister, and then went to the police station to turn himself in...

Perfect.

At most, he will be imprisoned for life.

Then, the policeman played by Bell kidnaps him at the last moment, takes him back to the place where he mutilated the woman, makes the mechanism, and in the final interrogation, the criminal still does not understand the confession.

At the end of the movie, the criminal played by Jack Nicholson dies...

Tortured to death by him...

The 90-minute movie is not hearty, but it is scary and exciting enough, at least for the senses.

Is there any American movie that plays like this?

Yes, yes, for example, Halle Berry's "Fatal Call", Jamie Fox's "Law-abiding Citizen"...

Both are movies of all sorts of crazy revenge, but... One is in 2013 and the other is in 2009.

In other words, at least at this stage, "Seeing the Devil" is a very new genre and theme.

The plot is purely for cult film fans, director Drew Gouda is making a directing film for the first time, but the rhythm is perfect - the original time and space, his directorial masterpiece is "The Cabin in the Woods"...

Of course, the most important thing is Bell's super popularity, Warner helped win 2879 theaters to open the picture, this number is very powerful, after all, it is an R-rated movie...

The results also lived up to expectations, with "Seeing the Devil" grossing $13.2 million on the first day and $38.12 million on the opening weekend!

And the reputation is not bad, there is a high probability that North America will break 100 million, and the global box office will be more than 250 million US dollars.

Shen Xudong and his wonderful studio have succeeded again!

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"This kind of hardcore movie is not suitable for domestic audiences..."

On August 19th, Shen Xudong attended the premiere press conference of "Hot Hand Detective", and was asked by a reporter about "Seeing the Devil", and he replied very seriously...

Then, the media asked, "I found that most of the movies you make in the United States can't be released in China?" ”

"There's no way, I also want to be a little fresh, and I also want to make some blockbusters that will be released worldwide, but... I'm just a marginal person in the United States, do you know what a marginal person is? I didn't have a chance to shoot mainstream themes at all! ”

""Twilight" is because the Hollywood Big Six are not interested, so it was my turn..."Seeing the Devil" is bloody and violent, and this film has no meaning... Even the entertainment is poor..."